another way to chase infinity

If you find the gatorinator post on a platform that isn't tumblr, you can cause me mental pain just by telling me! "For poor ornery people like you and like I" If you have no content on your page I will assume you are a bot (derogatory) and treat you as such.

[mlerpwonders]

[teaboot]

Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

[teaboot]

They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her

[edgar-allan-possum]

I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.

[elidyce]

Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW. 

Odysseus: Regret it why?

Cassandra: You won’t believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.

Odysseus: … I’m Nobody. Fill me in. 

*A couple of months later* 

Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, she’s great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother who’s not going to treat you like shit. 

Penelope: … I’m going to need more details, but okay, sure. 

Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family. 

[cipheramnesia]

Cassandra: Penelope, I’ve had another vision.

Penelope, sighs: Go tell your father.

[val-the-bun]

[sankta-wraith]

the original? on my dash?

[absolutely-esme]

Apollo: you’re the one who unleashed your little freak of a trouble maker on my Greek tragedy! You don’t get to blame me for this.

[daylighteclipsed]

ENTRY LEVEL MEANS NO EXPERIENCE. IT MEANS NO PORTFOLIO OF RELEVANT SAMPLES. ENTRY LEVEL IS ENTRY LEVEL

[thememedaddy]

[bruntalism]

[testosteronetwunk]

@laeffy

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Fortuneteller, turning over the Death card: Don't worry. It isn't literal. It simply refers to some form of change. Me: Phew Fortuneteller; turning over the Gets Eaten by the Fortuneteller While Trying to Leave card: That can also mean many things

[sapphicfandompirate]

I would love for 14 to recount his adventures to Donna tho

14: "Oh right! You know the archaeologist we met in that library who knew me but I didn't know her?"

Donna: "The pretty one you were bickering with?"

14: "Yeah! You are never going to believe who she is, you ready for this?"

Donna: "Well, go on! Who is she?"

14: "My wife."

Donna: *Extremely loud gasping, nearly spills her wine* "NO"

14: "Yes!"

Donna: "NO!"

14: "Yes!"

[kyoukorpse]

Someone to be brave for.

excerpt is from chapter 29 of the novel.

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[themoldysausage]

The Pevensies are the most perfect siblings representation in media. They argue with each other, they throw disgust when they have to be around each other, they bicker like actually siblings. Peter's little "I had it sorted" is such a sibling thing cause he knows he was saved but he'd rather die than admit it was his sibling who did it. And then when things actually get tough, they don't suddenly start being chummy, they still act like siblings, they still bicker and shove each other, but now they're doing it for a common goal, they will not falter together, but they're going to arguing with each other the whole battle. Too many movies show siblings miraculously changing their attitudes in the final battle as if they'd never fought ever, but not Narnia. They are siblings until the very end of the movie.

[zishiyao]

The Rescue of Maedhros

[lilaccatholic]

No actually I'd be THRILLED to be the reason people didn't use ai, thanks

[dragongirlbunny]

saw a post on bluesky about reimagining The Iliad as a mecha war and that idea goes unbelievably hard. achilles in his legally distinct gundam cutting through dozens of enemy suits. aggamemnon in his gold-plated mech. paris using a long range sniper rifle to exploit a design flaw in achilles' armor. the gods are all various megacorps who have a stake in the war bc it'll impact their profits.

[marithlizard]

It's been a while since I said "this person wins the internet", but today it is merited.

(via bsky)

(The classic XKCD comic)

[mlerpwonders]

Earlier today I thought for a moment about the project hail mary movie and was immediately struck by what I can only describe as a montage (with Sign of the Times backing it) of the two times I went to see it (in two different cities with two different groups).

This made me realize that I don't actually hate the movie and think it can't measure up to the book, I just can't stand tumblr fandom for a popular work.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

It's a zombie apocalypse and you are stuck in this place!

How are you doing?

great!

okay, I can make this work

Not great, probably can't make this work

A zombie

Dead (non-zombie related)

Results/it depends

Voting ended onJun 29

(zombies work by standard zombie rules, boarded doors and biting)

[seainspanish]

11 years of splatoon !! 🦑

[rohirric-hunter]

Today's rant about the exhaust port on the Death Star was inspired by a post about how Darth Vader appears to have known about it, based on some comics and some behavior in the movie. It was an interesting post which I only didn't reblog because some additions presupposed that this was the writers being stupid.

I actually think that still works with the presupposition that the exhaust port makes sense. Darth Vader, the same guy who destroyed a droid control ship in a vaguely similar way on accident and then spent several years during the Clone Wars probably pulling off similar stunts on purpose, has the experience to look for that kind of weakness. If he had access to the Death Star plans at any point, he probably found that weakness and filed it away for future use. He didn't like the Death Star, Tarkin kept rubbing it in his face that it was going to replace him and there were probably all sorts of internal politics about it.

So my thought is he saw the weakness and, when he saw the Rebellion attacking, hopped into a fighter to go out and join the fight with the intention of "accidentally" popping a couple of missiles down there himself. If he took out the last fighter and made the shot quick enough, the sensors likely wouldn't even have been able to be sure the missiles came from him and not that incredibly lucky last rebel pilot. And even if they could, who were they gonna tell in the 60 seconds or so they had left?

Rebels crushed, Death Star removed, all in one fell swoop.

Now this does have the amusing side effect of making his obsessive hunt for the pilot who destroyed the Death Star afterwards less about serving the Empire or whatever and more about taking down that upstart killstealer